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Tea Party Gains New Strength, Left Media Trots Out Old Hysteria

The tea party movement has become the dead bad-luck bird hanging around the GOP establishment's neck. Its anger-fueled energy has forced moderate Republicans off ballots in places where moderates tend to win. It has burdened otherwise centrist Republicans with radical positions that don't go well with a general electorate. The Grand Old Party is being taken over by an ideological fringe with unclear motives, a loose grasp on reality and little interest in actually governing.

Froma Harrop at least made the effort to pick up a thesaurus and use the word "radical", a departure from the last six months of talking points that have only used variations of the word "extreme".

The Left has become so used to controlling the narrative that they're cloaked in ignorant bliss about their inability to do so any longer. A favorite tactic for many years has been to condescendingly lecture the Republican party on what's best for it. The man so many would love to see as Mitt Romney's running mate was, according to concerned Democrats in 2010, ruin the GOP.

But here's the thing: The ascendancy of Tea Party candidates like Cruz, while impressive, comes at a cost to the Republican Party: the loss of moderate Republicans who have been knocked off or have resigned. Other Republicans have simply moved farther to the right in order to placate the absurd demands of the Tea Party extremists.

The problem from the Tea Party movement's view is that the Republican leadership has so often in the past taken direction from concerned Democrats like Jennifer Granholm and Harry Reid about what the GOP needed to do. For almost two decades now, congressional bipartisanship has been redefined to mean "the Republicans eventually come around to what the Democrats originally wanted." Any opposition has been deemed unnecessarily combative.

Unbelievably, Granholm's article is even more hysterical than Harrop's, who usually writes as if she's stomping her foot and threatening to jump off a high ledge if people don't listen to her. The former Michigan governor even continues to trot out the insane meme that the Tea Party movement is fueled by a bunch of crazy Muslim hating birthers, all the while pretending those views are the same as being against higher taxes.

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

The template for Concerned Democrat Advice is to warn the GOP hierarchy that it can't win elections if it keeps letting these upstarts, you know, win elections.

Tuesday night's primary was a victory for Ted Cruz, but it also should be a victory for the Democratic Party. Because as the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans.

Post-2010, this requires a suspension of disbelief usually reserved for watching action movies. It is also, however, indicative of the arrogance still ingrained in the Left after decades of being able to craft political narratives at will thanks to their complicit friends in the media. In their minds, repetition equals truth. They believe if they keep telling Americans that this is all just some plot by the Koch brothers to take over the world that it will stick.

There was no talk of "hijacking" the Democrat party in 2008 when the upstart presidential candidate defeated the establishment, odds-on favorite to win the nomination.

What has been happening for the last few years is that the American electorate is awakening and availing itself of the best term limits we've ever had-our right to vote people out of office when we don't like what they're doing.

And there is nothing more terrifying than that to those who seek to do no more than perpetuate the status quo.

The GOP Republican RINO establishment, along with the radical far left Obamacrats / Democrats which goes without saying, are liberal progressives would sell out the People, the US Constitution, and America as a Republic in a heart beat, if it allows them to stay in their permanent political class power and control status quo entrenchment, which they are doing, and have been doing for decades. Thus as far as the GOP RINO establishment is concerned, the Tea Party Reagan constitutional conservatives are their #1 priority enemy, and their #2, 3, 4, etc, priority enemy down on their list are the liberal anti-American Socialist-Marxists, Arab Islamic Muslim extremist, terrorists, etc, and so on. This is the absolute absurdity which puts them, the RINO's, at the wrong end of the political ideological spectrum, as always. Thus ours is not to appease and capitulate to them, ours is only to defeat them, which we are doing everyday, every election, every chance we get. The 113th US Congress after the 6 Nov election, will ensure the majority in Congress will be Reagan Tea Party Conservatives, whom will set the agenda and push aside the GOP establishment RINOs, and or dilute their influence down to a point of very little effectiveness.

"I have always been puzzled by the inability of some political and media types to understand exactly what is meant by adherence to political principle. All too often in the press and the television evening news it is treated as a call for “ideological purity.” Whatever ideology may mean—and it seems to mean a variety of things, depending upon who is using it—it always conjures up in my mind a picture of a rigid, irrational clinging to abstract theory in the face of reality. We have to recognize that in this country “ideology” is a scare word. And for good reason. Marxist-Leninism is, to give but one example, an ideology. All the facts of the real world have to be fitted to the Procrustean bed of Marx and Lenin. If the facts don’t happen to fit the ideology, the facts are chopped off and discarded.

I consider this to be the complete opposite to principled conservatism. If there is any political viewpoint in this world which is free from slavish adherence to abstraction, it is American conservatism.
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The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not just one generation or a dozen, but in all the combined experience of mankind. When we conservatives say that we know something about political affairs, and that we know can be stated as principles, we are saying that the principles we hold dear are those that have been found, through experience, to be ultimately beneficial for individuals, for families, for communities and for nations—found through the often bitter testing of pain, or sacrifice and sorrow."

The cherrished system in Washington that the democrats and RINO's have spent so much time constructing will come crashing down one way or another. They have built a house of cards that can not continue to stand up and hold more cards. The fiat currentcy era is about to end one way or another.
The fact that so many of the media and government establishment are in denial can not change reality. They are standing on a large building based on a mirage that can now be blown to bits by a simple gust of wind.

Last night, in a last ditch effort to avoid the "fiscal cliff" the House passed a bill that sought to prevent tax hikes for all but the top 2% of American workers. Taking a short break from his Hawaiian vacation, President Obama stopped by the White House to pat everyone on the back for bowing to his will. His speech should be laughable considering it followed a bill that is a joke, however, anyone that knows the details of the deal that was passed (with the help of 85 soon-to-be out of a job Republicans) certainly are not laughing.

Key Vote NO on H.R. 8, the “Fiscal Cliff” Tax Hikes and Sequester Postponement Bill
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As one of our millions of FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your U.S. Representative and urge him or her to vote against H.R. 8, the McConnell-Obama bill to raise taxes and postpone the promised sequester savings.

Key Vote NO on “Fiscal Cliff” Tax Hikes and Sequester Postponement
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As one of our millions of FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your state’s two U.S. Senators and urge them to vote against the McConnell-Obama bill to raise taxes and postpone the promised sequester savings.

Democracy and Power 101: Government is powerThe essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. —James Madison, Speech in the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830

The fiscal cliff is looming, and as FreedomWorks' President Matt Kibbe pointed out, “The $16 trillion monstrosity that is our current national debt is a product of spending too much, not taxing too little.” We need a plan that includes sequestration as well as reforms to taxation and entitlements. Senator Marco Rubio took to the airwaves last night to discuss just this.

In one of the more infamous statements regarding the process in which Democrats sought to force-feed health care reform to the American people, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi quipped, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it".

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are currently negotiating a deficit reduction deal to stop the sequester “cuts.” The main fight is over Obama’s proposal to raise federal income taxes on Americans making over $250,000 a year. While Boehner claims he is opposed to raising the top two income tax brackets, some worry that he will accept a bad tax-hiking deal in order to stop the sequester.